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    "ocrText": "Telecon\nIrwin\n12/18/70 ca. 6:30 p.m.\nI: I called because I thought I might want to bring you up to some-\nthing in case it broke. Everything is now under control there. I will\ntell you briefly. Nachmanoff is up on it too.\nK: I understand we are getting a temporary restraining order.\nI: Yes, hopefully it is being issued now. The original agreement\nwas between the Attorney General and Governor Kirk that is VO uld pre-\nvent\nthe boats from going out. But apparently Kirk changed his mind.\nNow we hope to get the order but before we were certain of that they came\nto me to see what the Coast Guard could do. I asked the Coast Guard if they\nhad to to delay the boat for reasons of inspection or something like that.\nK: That sounds right to me.\nI: That's what I wanted you to know we had done. That was the\nGovernor and the peeple of Florida who wanted the order\nfrom\nthem.\nK: While I've got you, we had a mad letter from Toure1 (?) from\nGuinea saying the CIA was involved in a plot. Here is what I propose\nto do. We are going to search CIA for anything that could ha ve been\nmisconstrued this way. Second, we suggest that we send a letter from\nthe President saying we have no evidence of such participation, that it\nwould be against our orders but we want all the information they have SO\nwe can punish the guilty parties.\nI: They just put a cable in front of me that's to go out on this matter\nauthorizing the Ambassador to inform the Minister there that we have not\nbeen involved in any way and we regard with utmost gravity any statement\nof theirs saying we had given orders to kill people.\nK: It sounds to me like we are in agreement on this. Why don't\nMarshall Wright and Newsome get together on this.\nI: Okay, I1;11 tell Newsome to work with Wright and clear anything\nwith them.\nBut you still might send a letter from the President?\nK: Maybe we should send this as a Presidential letter.\nI: But it should be more polished in that case.\nK: Let's let the two of them work on this and see what they come out with."
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